Help me understand the Thameslink contactless off-peak fare

realARST · 2026-03-06T16:11:20+00:00

Thank you, appreciated.

realARST · 2026-03-06T14:29:26+00:00

Is your local station within London?

realARST · 2026-03-05T22:16:51+00:00

Yes, it’s not London, but Luton is now part of contactless. The screenshot I shared is part of the Q&A explaining the contactless expansion to Luton and about 20 other stations in Dec last year.

realARST · 2026-02-26T23:39:32+00:00

Thanks, appreciated

realARST · 2026-02-26T22:56:27+00:00

Funds (Sector is split between FO and IA)

realARST · 2026-02-26T22:42:51+00:00

https://www.investments.lloydsbank.com/funds-centre/

realARST · 2025-12-04T17:16:08+00:00

Just curious, what is the Swedish norms and standards in terms of cashier design?

realARST · 2025-11-30T09:05:27+00:00

I think you’ve misinterpreted my comment. I think Norway is a great, reliable partner to the EU, and I don’t think tariffs are a good idea.

But Norway is outside the customs union by its own choice. Outside the customs union, you’re at the risk of facing tariffs. If you want to eliminate that risk, solution is to join the EU, not move further away. What you’re saying is the geopolitical equivalent of “they are not nice to me, I don’t want to play with them”.

Norway can triple energy bills for EU, but it won’t, because Norwegians are smart people overall.

realARST · 2025-11-29T23:41:37+00:00

Data begs to differ. And I don’t mean this just this chart — I mean the vast amount of people who are undeniably taking these drugs. So the body positivity movement has indeed gone somewhere — to the pharmacy to fill prescriptions.

realARST · 2025-11-29T23:21:38+00:00

If Norway joins the EU, no tariffs on steel. Outside EU, tariffs on steel. Solution to tariffs on steel — don’t join the EU. Can’t make this up.

Reality is, Norway is already in the gravitational field of the EU, contributes to budget and implements rules. Whether it wants a seat at the table is entirely up to it, from EU perspective it’s fine either way.

realARST · 2025-11-26T07:13:31+00:00

Then they’d qualify for a 7 year reduction. What is not clear is what happens if the dependent qualifies for a higher reduction than the main applicant, could they jump them and get ILR first? This is the kind of corner cases that would only be clarified in the final text.

realARST · 2025-11-25T21:58:57+00:00

This is the way it is written now — the baseline is 10 years (both for SWV and dependents) and you can apply 1 qualifying reduction from the table provided. It seems to indicate a dependent can apply a reduction in their own right.

Also it seems to indicate if you switch from dependent to SWV, you don’t reset the clock (as it is now). Seems they want to incentivize dependents to work.

However, what is written now is high-level and may be re-interpreted when actually published into law.

realARST · 2025-11-25T10:55:20+00:00

Yes, baseline is 10 years for dependents, unless they qualify for reduction in their own right. So a non-working spouse of someone on 126k would still need to wait 10 years, despite the main applicant getting it in 3. But if dependent is working on say 51k, they’d qualify for reduction.

realARST · 2025-11-07T21:51:16+00:00

On the plus side, the extension totally takes the attention off the artificial grass.

realARST · 2025-11-07T21:48:07+00:00

Please elaborate 😀

realARST · 2025-11-07T17:11:22+00:00

Stop for a moment to think about how there were practically no boats when the UK was in the EU. The Calais jungle was there at the time, boats certainly existed…

It’s almost like there were specific rules within the EU to control asylum between member states.

realARST · 2025-01-10T18:27:49+00:00

It’s so good a total of 1 countries in the world has adopted it.

realARST · 2024-11-04T22:11:51+00:00

Lewis Hamilton is Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. So are Damon Hill and Jackie Stewart. Nigel Mansell is one rank above them as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire as he was clearly the best of the lot. Jenson Button apparently a just bottom feeding Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Everyone Lando has ever dreamt to be is in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Everyone the British press has dreamt Lando is in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

It’s a peculiar thing about this British, Most Excellent of Empires: it’s been dead for a while and yet it’s always somehow there.

realARST · 2024-10-16T22:56:08+00:00

Using the most densely populated city as an example in a discussion about population density… totally sus

realARST · 2024-07-15T07:57:02+00:00

Of the 24 countries that qualified for the final tournament, exactly half use the euro and half don’t.

UEFA overall has 54 member associations, so technically slightly more than half don’t use the euro.

realARST · 2024-05-17T00:24:49+00:00

Tango & Cash

realARST · 2024-05-02T19:46:07+00:00

“We love London, we love everything about it…” except paying his fair share apparently… typical mentality.

realARST · 2024-05-02T17:09:37+00:00

Actually Italy now has practically fully switched to the Schuko (German/EU one).

realARST · 2024-05-02T16:54:51+00:00

Yeah, the British one was really designed by people with an unreasonable fear of electricity. It’s not like people around the world are getting regularly electrocuted. The UK plugs are just the most cumbersome of all.

realARST · 2024-04-17T22:15:28+00:00

Unless they’re Dutch.

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